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Q4 - Rachels star quilt

Hi

Q4 is to be a quilt for Rachel. She too wanted a quilt so all the quilts in my head shuffled up 1 place in my project phases and a quilt for Rachel took over Q4. Q4 is going to be for a single bed and reflects the fact that this is for a teenage daughter - all stars and interesting colour combinations.

The dates were as follows:     Design start date     - 6th of March 2011

                                              Piecing start date    - 8th of March 2011

                                             Top completed date - 1st May 2011
                                             Quilting completed - 1st July 2011

Stats                                     colours                   - 8

                                            blocks                     - 850

Here is the design:

The next evolution in the design. This may still happe a few moretimes until critical mass is achieved in making pieces at which time I normally quieten down and just sew.

Here is the material, soooooo pretty!

Update 17 march 2011

I have started stitching after sitting and covering 670 pieces of paper with fabric. It went much quicker this time as we purchased a paper guillotine and this really was a lot faster than cutting each piece of paper at a time. It took me 3 hours to stitch 1 and a half blocks which means I am going to need more than 100 hours to complete the top. Oh well that probably means that I will not be completing it this weekend.

Update 22 March 2011

Long weekend over... managed to complete 14 stars. 2 more and I am half way. Back to work and feeling grumpy,,that is the problem with long weekends - they are soo nice that going back to work sucks!!

Been many months but Rachels quilts is now complete.

Q3 - Stars and stripes

Q3 is an excercise in quilting, I designed it so there were large blocks for me to quilt as well as using up some diamond shapes I had over from Q2.

The dates were as follows: Design start date     - 15th of July 2010
                                              Piecing start date    - 17th August 2010
                                             Top completed date - 30th December 2010
                                             Quilting completed - 7th of March 2011

  Statistics                             Blocks                    - 814
                                            colours                    - 67       

This is how I did the design

And this is how is eventually came out.

THis is the quilting that I did on it.

Q2 - Swirl

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Phase 2 of my quilt project was to be a swirl. I wanted the colours of the rainbow graduating from light to dark.

The dates were as follows: Design start date     - 18th of April 2009
                                              Piecing start date    - 20th May 2009
                                             Top completed date - 9th July 2010
                                             Quilting completed - 15th of August 2010
Statistics                                 

colours 160

blocks 1917

      

This is how I did the design

 This is half way there

 Top finished and pinning quilt. Nice husband helping!

 The finished quilt

I like this picture the most

Q I - optical Quilts

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Starting on the 1st of january 2009 I decided to make Quilts again, The Q series is viewed as phases of a project. So Phase one was an optical illusion quilt.
The dates were as follows: Start date                 - the 1st of january 2009
                                             Top completed date - 16th of March 2009
                                             Quilting completed - 17th of May 2009

This quilt was hand stitched and hand quilted, This is how closely I quilted this one.

This was a fun quilt to do.